Koihime Musou: Toutaku's Forces

Since the website only introduces the characters from Kazuto’s side, or the Shu faction, I decided to introduce the other armies here, starting with Toutaku’s army.

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First is of course, Toutaku herself (Last name: Tou, First name: Taku, True name: Yue.). She is voiced by Kimura Ayaka, a Voice actress who’s played over 270 different eroge roles from Night Shift Nurses to Kakyuusei, Gift, and 5 different roles in Muramasa when not spending time as Negima’s Zazie Rainyday.

"Uhh... umm... It's my fault... So of course people will hate me..."

She is known by others as the wicked tyrant who drove the Han Dynasty to ruin… but she is actually a weak and timid person. After capitulating to Kazuto and the others for certain reasons, she becomes Kazuto’s personal maid and spends her days serving him. As thanks to Kazuto for saving her life, she wholeheartedly devotes her entire being unto him. She’s also very dependent on others and quick to fault herself.

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Next is Toutaku’s most trusted childhood friend and strategist, Kaku (Last name: Ka, First name: Ku, True Name: Ei). She is voiced by the Tsundere Goddess, Aoyama Yukari, who commands an impressive arrangement of over 400 different eroge roles from Seinarukana‘s Nozomi to Chaos; Head‘s Magical Girl Sera, Canvas, Pia Carrot, Snow Sakura, and Jibril. Not to mention Sage in Tick Tack and Really Really.

"Ah, awawa! I never knew it would turn out like that! Agh, you jerk, jerk, jerk!"

Kaku is positively in love with Toutaku alone, and extremely devoted to protecting her. She excels at devising cool-headed and cold-blooded strategies, but she is also an extreme klutz utterly abandoned by the god of fortune so her tactics usually fail. That’s only the beginning, too: should she run, she trips; should she be eating her favorite snack, it will fall to the floor; and other similar misfortunes plague her everyday life. However, she fails to realize it is due to her own misfortune and lashes out at those nearby.

After Toutaku capitulates to Kazuto, Kaku becomes his personal maid as well, seeing it as the only way in which she can protect her beloved, innocent Yue from his filthy, perverted desires. She also can’t stand watching her precious Yue open up to him, nor the fact that on top of being reduced from a nation’s strategist to mere attendant she’s forced to wear a frilly frilly “Maid outfit”… whatever that term is supposed to mean.

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Next up is Ryofu (Last name: Ryo, First name: Fu, True Name: Ren). She is voiced by Imuraya Honoka, To Heart 2’s very own Ilfa, as well as Elfen Lied’s Mayu. She’s also featured in Navel’s Ore Tachi ni Tsubasa ha Nai, Lass’s 11 Eyes, and even Baldr Sky.

"......The weak person is being loud."

Ryofu is heralded as the strongest warrior in all of the Three Kingdoms, and stands before Kazuto and the others as a member of Toutaku’s army. She speaks very little, and only shows just as little expression making it difficult to understand what she’s thinking. However, the truth is she’s a lonely person and likes to keep stray cats and dogs she picked up in her room.

Due to the antagonistic nature of their meeting and Ryofu’s poor communication skills she doesn’t get along very well with the other generals under Kazuto’s command at first, but they eventually open up to each other.

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Last, is Chouryou (Last name: Chou, First name: Ryou, True name: Shia). She is voiced by AYA, also known as the “Hot Springs Panda”, Inagawa Yu, from the Comic Party series.

"If you think you can take my spear, then give it your best shot!"

Chouryou is but one of Toutaku’s generals, and she fought to defend Hulao Pass together with Ryofu. She is a proud general who carries a strong sense of chivalry and takes pleasure in displaying her own military prowess. As she crosses blades with Kan’u, she comes to fall in love with her, and eventually joins your side to pursue that love.

The faction introduced here is Dong Zhuo‘s army which historically serves to put an end to the Han Dynasty and kick off the start of the Three Kingdoms Era. They aren’t considered one of the “Three Kingdoms” because they are historically defeated by an alliance formed by the Three Kingdoms to exact revenge upon the “Traitors” who ended the Han Dynasty and make a name for themselves. (The members of the Shu Han faction participated under a different name at the time.)

The war against Dong Zhuo serves as a prelude to the Three Kingdoms era and as such, serves as the starting point for the tale.

But yup, over the next month or so you’ll see more intros for the other factions: Enshou (Yuan Shao), Sougi (Cao Wei), Songo (Sun Wu), and the extras as well 😉

Ah, I see. I always forget what happens to Dong Zhou after dealing with the Eunuchs… *checks wikipedia* oh wtf!? Isn’t Lue Bu supposed to be a sympathetic character in this rendition? (And how do you shorthand a pinyin “umlaut”… what do they call it… diaeresis? Presumably not with “e”.)

I’m interested to see how a lot of the bloody betrayal plays out when projected into moedom.

A bit offtopic, but now that you mention Imayura Honoka and Oretsuba, has Navel or MangaGamer expressed any interest in bringing over that series? I know it’s slated to have an anime adaptation later this year, which could be a good opportunity.

Chouryou is one of my favorite characters in the series. I’m glad the game has more of her than the anime did. Seriously, Chouryou had obviously just fallen for Kan’u and barring a fourth season in the future, that’s where the show left off. So much wasted potential.